Frederik Pohl Quotes
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
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An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
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In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
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In most science-fiction pictures, the black guy is either an engineer or a radio operator, and he is the first guy killed - gone from the movie.
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The same challenge also appears in an even more fraught setting: dating. Optimal stopping is the science of serial monogamy. Simple algorithms offer solutions not only to an apartment hunt but to all such situations in life where we confront the question of optimal stopping. People grapple witah these issues every day—although surely poets have spilled more ink on the tribulations of courtship than of parking—and they do so with, in some cases, considerable anguish. But the anguish is unnecessary. Mathematically, at least, these are solved problems. Every harried renter, driver, and suitor you see around you as you go through a typical week is essentially reinventing the wheel. They don’t need a therapist; they need an algorithm. The therapist tells them to find the right, comfortable balance between impulsivity and overthinking. The algorithm tells them the balance is thirty-seven percent.
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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
